High tech method for fingerprint forgery from 1907http://www.bromba.com/contacte.htm
2007-03-11 |
| From recent publications [1-4] it has been seemed that the copyability of biometric features is a new discovery. In fact, there are much earlier publications available which claim that at least latent fingerprints can be forged to an extened that it becomes impossible to detect the forgery. Such a source has been cited by the standard work of dactyloscopy, the German book "System und Praxis der Daktyloskopie und der sonstigen technischen Methoden der Kriminalpolizei" [5] from Robert Heindl (1922, revised version 1927). It is the novel "The Red Thumb Mark" from R. Austin Freeman [6]. This novel has been published in 1907 and has been reissued several times. Latest issues are available from Amazon, for example. Although the methods described by Freeman have been intended to produce latent prints of perfect quality, they may also be used to "fool" modern fingerprint sensors which are working without any fake detection methods. |
| [1] Thalheim, Lisa;
Krissler, Jan; Ziegler, P.-M. ; "Körperkontrolle"; c't 11/2002, S114-123;
deutsche
Kurzfassung; english
version.
[2] Matsumoto, Tsutomu; "Importance of Open Discussion on Adversarial Analyses for Mobile Security Technologies"; ITU-T workshop on security, Seoul; May 2002. [3] van der Putte, Ton; Keuning, Jeroen; "Biometrical fingerprint recognition: don't get your fingers burned"; Proc. IFIP TC8/WG8.8 Fourth Working Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, pp 289-303. [4] van der Putte, Ton; "Spoofing fingerprints - As easy as 1,2,3?" Lecture given at Biometrics 2001, London UK, November 2001. [5] Heindl, Robert: "System und Praxis der Daktyloskopie und der sonstigen technischen Methoden der Kriminalpolizei", De Gruyter, Berlin 1922. [6] Freeman, R. Austin: "The Red Thumb Mark", ISBN 0486252108, 1907. Further papers on this topic can be found in the publication list of Wieslaw Bicz (Optel): "Faking fingerprint readers (or other biometric devices)"
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